Chief Guest:
His Excellency Mr Yoshiaki Kodaki, The Consul General of Japan,

Welcome
address & Presentation of NCRM :

Dr Samuel
JK Abraham, Director NCRM

(II
Dept of Surgery,
Yamanashi University Hospital, Tamaho, Japan)

“Nichi-In
Centre for Regenerative Medicine is going to take the stem cells and
autologous tissues with regenerative capacity to clinical application.
This is not going to invade into any particular specialty of medicine and
be a substitute to any prevailing definitive treatment modality. Rather
NCRM will equip the clinicians with an additional tool called stem cells
in treating various disorders in the most ethical and scientific way, with
transparency and adherence to the existing national and international
guidelines. The facility in Chennai will coordinate research work between
Indian and Japanese institutes, and upon standardizing the treatment
protocols train clinicians and researchers in using the same to propagate
it all over the country to relieve fellow human beings from pain”

His Excellency Mr Yoshiaki Kodaki, The
Consul General of Japan, Chennai.

Over the
years there have been several Indo-Japan programmes by Nichi-In and we
welcome such activities, as they contribute to promote the understanding
between the people of Japan and India. South India has been famous for
high standards of medical science, technology and health care services.
Japan as well is known for high standards of medical science and
technology. So it is quite natural that India and Japan should cooperate
in thie field, though lot of efforts is required to make such cooperative
work, a success. In this context, I pay my respect to the people who
initiated the Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) project and
worked hard overcoming difficulties and finally successed in bringing it
into realization.

This project of NCRM is seen as good example of embodying the spirit of
the strategic partnership between Japan and India and also seen as a good
example of global cooperation at time when the world becomes an entity
called global village. I hope the NCRM project would stimulate other
people in the medical sector to follow such cooperative projects for the
benefit of the citizens of the global village.

During the visit of the Prime minister of Japan Mr Junichiro Koizumi, the
statement entitled “Strategic orientation of Japan-India global
partnership in a new asian era” was issued. This emphasizes the importance
of the partnership between the two countries and agrees to expand the
relations between India and Japan by launching eight fold initiatives.
One of the initiatives is Science and Technology, which includes modern
biology, health care, and agriculture. I wish the NCRM all success

Felicitation
by Dr K.M Cherian:

(Chairman &
CEO, Frontier Life Line)

Regenerative
Medicine is going to be the future and sooner, hospitals will be called as
“Centres for regeneration”. This is the time we should concentrate more in
this line of research and bring those benefits for the welfare of the
mankind.

Felicitation
by Dr C.M Habibullah:

(Director,
Centre for Liver Diseases, Hyderabad)

With
my association in joint research for the past one year, I feel
that the scientists with NCRM have a very balanced way of evaluating
things and their technology of having overcome the major obstacles in cell culture
technique, is definitely going to revolutionize the various treatments
using cell therapeutics.

Dr K Ravishankar:

(CEO, Sankara
Nethralaya)

This could be
the first time in India that we are able to have an indigenously developed
cell line that too a stem cell line.

Swamiji Satyapriyananda:

(Secretary,
Vivekananda College)

Though health
care is their major area of concern of NCRM, our institute is associated
with them in finding ways for developing environmental friendly plastics
and to find methods for conserving water in agriculture.

Mr Ramana Reddy:

(Trustee,
Vijaya Group of Hospitals)

Human beings
are their own source of happiness as well as problems. In today’s world,
materialistic values have overcome, spiritual values and regeneration of
the lost spiritual values is more important than physical regeneration.